Ethnicity: Clip

This clip of Eastenders and Coronation Street for ‘Children in Need’ is purposefully done for comedy reasons but does show us that ethnicity is very important to British TV in understanding peoples backgrounds. They do this through stereotypes, the clip above is of two what appears Asian women but in the scene one of the women ‘Zainab Masood’ claims that ‘Sunita Alahan’ isn’t what she classes as Asian because she does not speak with a typical Asian accent associated with the culture. She also takes offense of they way she has dressed, in her words she says ‘some people don’t have to dress up to prove their Asians’ Zainab reveals that to wear a sari isn’t a fancy dress that you have to wear to prove or to emphasize your ethnicity but a style choice to go with your culture. For the stereotypes is teaches us that there are some of them we need to enforce an ethnicity such as in this case their skin colour, but some that we do not necessarily need, the sari and accent.